13th January 2024
Panda thanks to Cloin. Hazy orange gold beer, small bubbly pale cream colour head. Smooth and mildly dry palate, good fine carbonation. Fluffy malts, the creamy sweetness perhaps a notch higher than usual for the broad spectrum of excellent dipas we can enjoy these days. But that sweetness is there to balance the surprisingly hard edged Simcoe hops. Sure, slightly floral and orangey citrus and mild pine. But there is a sharpish edge of peel bitterness and an a fairly aggressive hop spice that starts to burn the soft palate, but never gets too much. Very nice dipa and interesting as well, just when you think you have seen it all with Simcoe...

Can at home, from an online peddler whom I can't recall, 06/01/24. Murky orange with a good sized lasting creamy white head. Nose is bitter orange, grass, raw pineapple, ripe mango flesh, pine resin, dank chimes. Taste comprises bitter tropical fruits, hop spice, grapefruit, guava, grass, pineapple chunks, mango pulp. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spiked with resinous come lightly dankened hop bitterness. Solid bitter leaning and punchy DIPA ... good shit!